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Loading... Pursuit of a Parcel (1942)by Patricia Wentworth
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HTML:Enemy forces will stop at nothing to retrieve an incriminating package in this gripping international thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries Double agent Cornelius Roos is about to become dispensable to the Germansâ??until he reveals the existence of a recording that will guarantee the death of a high-ranking Nazi official if it finds its way into the hands of Hermann Goering. So Roos strikes a bargain: If he walks out of Gestapo headquarters alive, he will ensure that the compromising recording never reaches Goering. Meanwhile, in the Foreign Intelligence office in England, agent Antony Rossiter is interrogated about Roos, his older, adopted brother. A few days later, Rossiter parachutes into Holland to make contact with Roos. But when a brown paper parcel with Rossiter's name on it is delivered to a British law firm, Rossiter's fiancĂ©e, Delia Merridew, becomes an innocent pawn in a deadly game of international espionage and cold-blooded murder. Now it's up to Scotland Yard Inspector Ernest Lamb and Detective Frank Abbott to ferret out the truth before a desperate enemy claims another victim. Pursuit of a Parcel is the 3rd book in the Ernest Lamb Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. No library descriptions found. |
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One of the nice things about English mysteries written between the wars is that the young female protagonists tend to be quite sensible people. They may giggle a bit or go in for fast cars, but they are their own people who do not expect men to do all the work. There may be female characters (and males too) who are idiots and worthless, but these are generally not the main characters.
Here we have Miss Delia Merridew who receives a parcel from a clerk from a solicitor's office that had been bombed out. It is addressed to her gentleman friend, soon to be fiancé, Antony Rossiter. The clerk leaves it in Miss Delia's safekeeping, and by golly she keeps it safe.
In the mean time, various Nazis and spies and assorted bad guys are after the parcel and they come after Delia and Antony and Antony's adopted brother Cornelius who is a double agent. After deaths, kidnappings, close escapes and other spy thriller escapades, love triumphs over Nazi wiles and our young lovers live happily ever after.
Of Ernest Lamb we learn little. He is named on the cover but otherwise you might never notice him. He became a regular in Ms Wentworth's fiction.
I received a review copy of "Pursuit of a Parcel: An Ernest Lamb Mystery" by Patricia Wentworth (Open Road) through NetGalley.com. (